On 12/5/05, Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
Is it possible to set up a single disk raid (kind of redundant to call a single disk an array) but I've got a single SATA drive in the machine not doing anything. It's a 10k maxtor 74G drive, and what I really want is just to backup two home partitions. I can always reinstall the OS, but the data can't be recovered that easily. The mobo supports raid-0,1 and jbod. Suggestions?
Snowman
You can set up raid1 on a single disk if the intent is to add another disk later on. When you add the second (or third) disk run mdadm and get the disk recognised in to the "array" Else as other have suggested rsync in cron will do an easier job of backing up on regular basis and will take less than a minute if run it regularly, say half hour.
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